Loneliness.

It was this loneliness mainly that made me think about how I wanted to portray The Metamorphosis and also the separation between Gregor and his family. In my chosen Sub-genres, English Gothic Horror and Cyber Punk I feel like I can work different aspects of the play and then bring them together in a mix to create a new sub-genre of the two.

I will firstly be looking into them separately, drawing sketches from each and then bringing them together, mixing the aspects I think will work best together. Hopefully I will be able to have one sub-genre to express Gregors family and the other to express Gregor himself, which I think will help me to portray the divide between them that I see.

English Gothic Horror – Characteristic theme is the stranglehold of the past upon the present or the encroachment of the Dark Ages of oppression upon the "enlightened" modern era. Enclosed and haunted settings (castles, crypts, convents, mansions), gloomy images of ruin and decay, episodes of imprisonment, cruelty, and persecution are used to express this.

Cyber Punk - High technology in the not-so-distant future, featuring a bleak outlook and setting, displaying humanity almost destroying itself with its own advances. It Encompasses nanotechnology, cyborgs, androids and/or virtual reality.

Definitions taken from www.fictonfactor.com